Mother Notices Weird Thing About Girl’s Hair, Then Stares at Boyfriend in Rage

There may be nothing scarier than finding out that your child has been hurt by someone. When the child’s abuser is someone you know, it can make the situation even worse.

One Indiana woman recently realized that her boyfriend had hurt her 3-year-old daughter while the boyfriend and daughter were together without the mom.

Noel Maxwell had allowed her boyfriend, Andrew J. Milburn, to take her daughter, who is not his daughter, to a party at his parent’s house in the next town over. Maxwell stayed behind to rest, and she said she was asleep when Milburn and the little girl returned home that night, according to WXIN.

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The next morning, Maxwell went in to check on her sleeping daughter, but when she brushed the little girl’s hair out of her face, she noticed something terrifying about the side of her child’s head. Maxwell said there was a massive swelling on the child’s head that wasn’t there the night before.

In fact, it was so large that it was protruding from the child’s skull and was visible without having to touch it.

Maxwell demanded that her boyfriend tell her what happened in her absence, but he said he didn’t know and that the child must have fallen while at his parents’ house.

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The frightened mom rushed her baby to the hospital, where she soon found out the truth about what happened — her boyfriend had scalped the little girl.

Doctors at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Frankfort said that the extensive swelling was caused by extremely rough pulling on the child’s hair, forcibly removing the child’s scalp from her skull. This trauma resulted in severe bruising, internal bleeding, and swelling.

Police investigated the situation and determined that the girl had been struck multiple times on her head before being dragged around or pulled by her hair.

Although unsure of exactly how or why the child abuse happened, they arrested Milburn on Tuesday and charged him with battery resulting in serious bodily injury to a person less than 14 years of age. He was being held on a $25,000 bond.

This is just sick, but unfortunately child abuse happens all the time. It’s hard to trust anyone with your child. Parents should be aware that even the people you think you can trust the most could be hurting your own child.